Discretionary effort is voluntary effort. It is the level of effort over and above that required for an employee to simply get by and keep their job.
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Author Archives: Blair Stevenson
What are the 3 Essential Practices of Effective Leadership?
Modern western society is all about speed. You want it fast. You want it now. From business book summaries you can read in 10 minutes, to food in a minute for dinner. You don’t want to hang around.
So to save time, let’s cut to the essence of Effective Leadership. In the end there are only three essential practices of Effective Leadership. Without you taking action on these bad boys, you’ll find it difficult to motivate frontline staff and your team will be going nowhere.
The Best Way for Managers to Handle Conflict
You’ll probably agree that dealing with conflict in the workplace can be a difficult and delicate matter. Which suggests that conflict might be a bad thing. But that’s not necessarily the case.
What Leadership Blog Writers Read
Let’s be honest. What this post is really about is what blogs this leadership blog writer reads, simply because these blogs may be of benefit to you. Like you, I skim read a number of blogs and newsletters. But there are only three writers who consistently offer me compelling reading.
Posted in Leadership Skills Tagged Bill Strickland, Leadership Blog, Neale Donald Walsch, Seth Godin Leave a comment
Discover the Difference Between Frontline and Senior Leadership
What’s interesting is what gets frontline managers and executives fired. While there is some basic commonality between frontline leadership and senior leadership, senior leaders get promoted for certain abilities that aren’t necessarily required of frontline leaders, they get fired for different things, and their role is fundamentally different.
Don’t Say Don’t
There’s an easy way for you to practically apply the Dead Man’s Test. The easy way to pass the test is to avoid saying ‘don’t’. Or to put it another way, don’t say don’t.
Posted in Leadership Skills Tagged Frontline Leadership, Parenting Skills, The Dead Man's Test 1 Comment
What Dead Men can Teach You about Effective Leadership
It’s quite amazing what dead men don’t do. But dead men can teach you something about Effective Leadership.
Discover the Power of Great Expectations
Your expectations of people and their expectations of themselves are key factors in how well people perform at work. Known as the Pygmalion Effect, the power of expectations cannot be overestimated.
Posted in Employee Motivation Tagged Employee Motivation, Frontline Managers, Pygmalion Effect Leave a comment
How Stone Age Instincts Affect Leadership
When it comes to maximising employee motivation and performance, first and mid-level managers matter much more than senior leaders. And the reason is as old as the history of human kind.
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
If you’re interested in dramatically improving employee motivation and performance, then you’ll be interested in Daniel Pink’s latest book, “Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.”
Posted in Employee Motivation Tagged Daniel Pink, Employee Motivation, Frontline Leadership 2 Comments